This article surveys German representations of the First World War in the year 1932. It focuses on four cases. Two are works by protagonists of the Weimar Republic’s modern artistic culture, Käthe Kollwitz and Otto Dix. Two are by less well-known artists outside the modernist position in the field of German artistic production, Ernst Vollbehr and Paul Merling. The article considers the form, materiality, and iconography of these works to show how they convey, from very different perspectives, the experience of modern technological warfare. It also outlines the reception of the works. The article thus expands our understanding of the field of German artistic representations of war during the Weimar Republic and provides a new analysis of the relationship between art and ideology in the political and economic crisis that preceded Hitler’s rise to power.

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1932 年的德国艺术与战争

本文调查了德国在 1932 年第一次世界大战的表现。它侧重于四个案例。其中两幅是魏玛共和国现代艺术文化的主角凯瑟·柯勒惠支和奥托·迪克斯的作品。两位是在德国艺术生产领域的现代主义立场之外不太知名的艺术家，Ernst Vollbehr 和 Paul Merling。文章考虑了这些作品的形式、材料和图像，以展示它们如何从非常不同的角度传达现代技术战争的经验。它还概述了作品的接收情况。